· Private foundation
Edgar & Frances Reynolds Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 68% of EDGAR & FRANCES REYNOLDS FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k24 grants · $75k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $105k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GRAND ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| CENTRAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $30,000 |
| ST FRANCIS FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| STUHR MUSEUM FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| CAIRO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| GI PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| HASTINGS COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| GRAND ISLAND SKEET SPTG CLAYS | $10,000 |
| GRAND ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| HEARTLAND LUTHERAN HIGH SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS | $5,000 |
| NEBRASKA DENTAL FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| GRAND ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| NEBRASKA STATE FAIR FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $67k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +49% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
47 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2024, 26 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- CCCENTRAL CATHOLIC DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION2× · 2017–2018 · $33k · revenue +206%
- CPCENTRAL PLAINS CENTER FOR SERVICES2× · 2017–2023 · $30k · revenue +87%
- HCHASTINGS COLLEGE FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2024 · $30k · revenue ×31
Funded once
- GIGRAND ISLAND RIFLE CLUBone grant, 2023 · $40k
- GIGRAND ISLAND CHILDREN'S MUSEUMgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $30k · revenue +511%
- CCCENTRAL CATHOLIC FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $30k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To engage in economic development activities and to engage in other activities and programs to benefit and support the grand island area economic development corporation or perform or carry out the functions or purposes of the corporation…
The hastings community foundation works to perpetuate and enrich the quality of life in hastings and the surrounding area through the prudent investment and management of philanthropic donations.
The harvard community foundation is dedicated to the future by encouraging donations for social, cultural, and educational progress in harvard, nebraska.
The foundation's mission is to seek, receive and administer donations and gifts for the sole benfit of valley county health system. our number one priority is enhancing and sustaining high-quality healthcare in central nebraska.
A restorative justice agency committed to habilitating justice in nebraska.
To receive contributions and gifts and to disburse funds to assist in supporting jefferson county hospital, jefferson county, iowa.
To promote and coordinate economic development, education, and quality of life through strengthened communication in north central nebraska.
To promote, facilitate and develop or co-develop affordable housing in lincoln county, nebraska.
The purpose of the foundation is to encourage high school graduates to pursue higher education in the agricultural and agribusiness fields through scholarships and the implementation of school-to-work programs with participating nebraska…
Mission: community action of nebraska strives to alleviate poverty through enhancing program development, providing technical assistance, and advocating public policy to support all community action agencies in nebraska.
Support for community colleges
The mission of the hastings museum is to bring to life the natural and cultural history of hastings, adams county and the great plains of nebraska through the use of educational programs, exhibits and films.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hamilton Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Christmas Cheer. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 33. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 13% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 6% lost their exemption, against 6% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
31 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 31 of the 78 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds GREATER GRAND ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STUHR MUSEUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAIRO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GRAND ISLAND LIVESTOCK COMPLEX AUTH ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL CATHOLIC DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GRAND ISLAND CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PLAINS CENTER FOR SERVICES ↗
- Who funds HASTINGS COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF NEBRASKA INC ↗
- Who funds COLLAGE CENTER ↗
- Who funds HOPE HARBOR INC ↗
- Who funds THIRD CITY COMMUNITY CLINC INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HAMILTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HEARTLAND UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HUNGER ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL NEBRASKA HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds GRACE FOUNDATION INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Sn Bud and Gloria Wolbach Charitable Foundati · Greater Grand Island Community Foundation · Taylor Vern & Esther Char Trust · Kaufmann-Cummings Foundation C/0 Richard Rabe · Fred & Amanda Glade Foundation · The Sherwood Foundation · Mdm Foundation · Hirschfeld Family Foundation Inc · Bnsf Railway Foundation · Claussen E & M Charitable Tuw · Peter Kiewit Foundation · Robert B Daugherty Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Edgar & Frances Reynolds Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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